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Terminology for a foliation that is only tangentially smooth

I'd like to get some information and references, starting with a name, for the following quite common situation, for a smooth (i.e. $C^\infty$) $n$-manifold $M$. A partition $\mathcal{L}$ of $M$ is ...
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Why is a hyperbolic basic set of dimension 2 either an attractor or a repeller?

I'm currently trying to understand the Birman-Williams Template Theorem, proved in the paper "Knotted periodic orbits II: Fibered knots, Low Dimensional Topology". Unfortunately, there doesn't seem to ...
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